Load a URL without an iFrame?

[DejaVu]

I've been told the easiest way to do this is with cURL, but I'm clueless. I know cURL is setup on my server though.

Anyway, I'm running a script and once it's successful I need to load a Page/URL to initiate an update.
The update literally changes a number (Github Commit) in an ini file.

The Page that does this is update.php?update=true - It works great at changing the number everytime.

All this does is return a 1 if successful - and it always will be so long as Github is up.

So far I'm opening an invisible iframe with it in once the original script is successful.
But I want to scrap this crude work around and find out how to do it properly. Is it possible to just do it with PHP?

I tried include, require and file_get_contents and none of them work right.

I do wish I could get my head around this Web Coding stuff.
I am sooo interested in it, I just find it difficult to learn.

[Brydo666]

What happens when you try include? I've used this in the past with no issues? (It may utilize the host pages stylesheet though...)

[ap0c]

this may be what you are looking for:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

[DejaVu]

I tried include, but it does not make the update for some reason.

@ap0c.
I know it's something like this, but my coding skills are less than Zero so that page may as well be in Swarhealy and I would understand it better!

[fevernova]

What about a jquery lightbox